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Dottie Wetherill cale and gurgle about her brother Bob and his friends Bob, it appeared, was going to bring five officers home with hiht Of course Ruth et his first lieutenant's commission There had been a mistake, of course, or he would have had it before this, some favoritiss were going to be all right for hiet anywhere without a "pull" And didn't Ruth think Bob looked perfectly fine in his uniform?

It annoyed Ruth to hear such talk and she tried to make it plain to Dottie that she wasIt was all iination She knew, for her cousin, Captain La Rue, was very close to the Government and he had told her so He said that real worth was always recognized, and that it didn't make any difference where it was found or who your friends were It mattered what you were

She fixed Dottie's sock and et ready an allotht bustled in, large and florid and well groorapher's proofs of her son Harry in his uniform She called loudly for Ruth to come and inspect thely fatter,than the last She stated in boisterous good huave the order At that Mrs Pryor bent her head to her neighbor and nodded ly, as if a certain matter of discussion were settled now beyond all question Ruth caught the look and itsand the color flooded her face once rily if she would never be able to stop that childish habit of blushing, and why it annoyed her so veryto have her naht He was her old friend and play lived next door to her all her life, and it was but natural when everybody eethearting and getting married, that people should speak of her and wonder whether theremore to their relationship than mere friendship Still it annoyed her Continually as she turned the pages froht countenance to another, she saw in a mist the face of another man, with uplifted head and sorrowful eyes She wondered if when the tiht of the vision, and aught of the holiness of sorrow that had shown in that other face